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Circus of Censorship Guterres Talks With
AU about COP in Egypt Abusing NGOs
By Matthew
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UN GATE, Sept 18
– Just before the UN's hyped
and often decadent General
Assembly week, Secretary
General Antonio Guterres on
Sunday, September 18 "met with
H.E. Mr. Moussa Faki Mahamat,
Chairperson of the African
Union Commission. The two
leaders discussed support to
ongoing complex political
transitions in Africa,
preparations for the 27th
Conference of the Parties to
be held in November 2022 in
Egypt."
But Egypt is
targeting environmental NGOs
in the run-up to the COP. On
September 12 banned Inner City
Press asked Guterres and his
spokespeople Stephane Dujarric
and Melissa Fleming, still
without answer, "On
Egypt and COP 27 what are
the comments and actions if
any of SG Guterres on the
accusations against the
Egyptian government for
severely curtailing the
ability of environmental
groups to carry out their
work, even as it prepares to
host the COP27 climate
summit in November"? What a scam.
Guterres on
September 14 held a briefing
with friendly journalists
only, delivering a lengthy
answer in Portuguese with no
translation.
This came
after a year of UN failure on
Ukraine, Haiti, and corruption
in the DR Congo exposed by
Inner City Press.
Guterres and his
head of media access Melissa
Fleming have kept Inner City
Press banned, most recently
not even responding to its
application last week to enter
and cover the UNGA week.
While
Guterres sufficiently serviced
the Permanent Five members of
the UN Security Council to
grab a second term, now he is
spreading his censorship to
and through them.
On
September 15 US Ambassador
Linda Thomas-Greenfield will
limit questions about USUN's
work, weak on China, to
correspondents accredited -
and not banned - by Guterres'
UN. Watch this site.
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